Look, I think it is important that as many people as possible see these phenomenal photos of Melanobatrachus indicus, because they are damn rare, but truly spectacular.
If anyone wants to know my favourite frog, this is probably in the top five.
honestly the series didn't pay enough attention to the fact that rachel is exclusively responsible for tobias and ax's wardrobes and they go along with her choices. (she instinctively buys designer underwear for erek, so i assume that she also buys designer underwear for the boys and thinks nothing of it.) this means that when the gang's out and about tobias and ax are wearing absolutely slammin' outfits and jake and marco are just...there
This article pulls zero punches. Incomplete list of potential triggers: miscarriage, medical neglect, loss of fertility, infant death, vomit, maternal trauma, mention of genetic and birth defects, and forced pregnancy.
The women named in this article have suffered, terribly, unnecessarily, because state law makers meddled in matters they didn’t understand.
embracing the patterned ambiguity of gender and sex as more or less social constructs can grant you so much more precision in thinking about so many concepts in science.
like, if there was a study (and I’m just making this up as an example) showing women suffer from mosquito bites more than men do
you could do the ~“Gender Critical”~ thing and go “see!? mosquitoes get it!!”
OR
you could go “that’s interesting” and start asking more questions, like:
is this data self-reported? controlled?
were they studying the women or the mosquitoes?
did the study use methods that would let you tell the difference between “being bitten more often” and “noticing bites more often”?
did the study include any trans people and were their results any different? if yes were they on HRT or not?
how similar were the men and women in aspects other than gender? do we know their social class, jobs, diets, blood types?
because in fact the study i made up just then could lead to a huge variety of conclusions. from my description above you can’t tell the difference between studies that show:
mosquitoes are attracted to people with higher estrogen levels
mosquitoes are opportunistic and women spend more time near mosquito habitats for sociocultural reasons
every gender gets bitten about the same amount but men are socialised to pay less attention to physical discomfort so more of them don’t notice minor bites compared to women (and by more we mean like 60-40, this is a bell curve thing)
we accidentally got heaps of women in the study that have the mosquito’s favourite blood type and not so for the men, oops
mosquitoes are attracted to people with more x and y in their diets, which is currently mostly women for, again, largely sociocultural reasons
etc etc etc
you’re just not going to understand actual Gender Science, and therefore reality, if you can’t put “hmm, but what do they mean by woman this time” in your mental toolkit in a relatively neutral way.
Honestly this is a great way of presenting the kind of scientific literacy that is needed in an era of clickbait headlines and sound bites and facts that turn into memes; so much science “news” as reported by mass media distills nuanced studies into easily quotable and shocking one-liners that generally ignore the context behind the statistic.
i should not have to justify myself to u ppl but i digress
i was assigned male at birth, had IGM to look more typically male, and was raised as a perisex male until my 5-ARD diagnosis at 18. it took 3 different mental health professionals verifying that my schizophrenia was not the reason for my gender dysphoria to be allowed to start feminizing HRT at 14. i am as transfem as they come. just bcs i disagree w hating transmasculine ppl (and in ur case hating ctf intersex ppl?? lmao?? “practically female” no, intersex is intersex) does not mean i am not transfem. ppl can disagree w u w/o being transmasc so cope ig.
i think ppl w/pcos who identify partially or fully as transfem r super cool btw. intersex liberation forever i do not judge ppl’s relationship w transitioning to femininity based on how far i think their condition places them from biological femaleness. it’s none of my business and it’s none of urs.
All that being AMAB or AFAB really means is that however many years ago, a doctor looked at a baby’s genitals and said “yep, (close enough to) a girl” or “yep, (close enough to) a boy”. It’s not a good framework to view oppression through.
Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?
Posting hole
Lol
yeah yeah carbon nanotubes. but what about the copper nanotubes.
